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[TIFF Review] Rabbit Hole

Note: The following review contains spoilers that occur in the first act. With his third feature, John Cameron Mitchell takes a departure from his oddity tri...

[TIFF Video Review] Ceremony

Max Winkler, known for his work on one of my favorite web series Clark and Michael, premiered his debut feature at TIFF this year. The comedy/drama Ceremony s...

[TIFF Video Review] Submarine

It's the reason I go to film festivals. I could anticipate loving Darren Aronofsky's Black Swan or Danny Boyle's 127 Hours, but it is a special moment when you discover a gem. Richard Ayoade's Submarine is just that....

[TIFF Review] Let Me In

Let Me In is a difficult film to review. I love director Matt Reeves, Cloverfield being right next to Let The Right One In as one of my favorite films of 2008...

[TIFF Review] Everything Must Go

From one of the hottest scripts in Hollywood, Dan Rush's Everything Must Go, recently premiered here at TIFF. Based on Raymond Carver's short story Why Don't ...

[TIFF Review] Hereafter

After the abominably banal Oscar-bait that was last year's Invictus, I was ready for Clint Eastwood to attempt something new. Enter Hereafter, a supernatura...

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Jordan Raup is the founder and editor-in-chief of The Film Stage and a Rotten Tomatoes-approved critic. Track his obsessive film-watching on Letterboxd.